Hello everybody
I recently upgraded my FreeNAS7 to 8.3.0-p1 and had a hard time making user authenticated AFP access work. The documentation is correct, but does not say a few important facts that I'd like to add here so that its maintainer may add it if he agrees.
Authenticating for AFP access consists of two "layers" - the user authentication and the share password. Entering your FreeNAS AFP volume in OS X finder with Cmd+K triggers a dialog to enter your credentials. Those are the user credentials and NOT the AFP share password that you configure when defining your share. I did not find a way withing OS X to enter that share password. In fact once you enter it in FreeNAs share configuration there's no way to clear it, only to change it do a different one. To clear a share password you have to remove the share an recreate it and leaving the password fields empty.
Cheers,
Peter
I recently upgraded my FreeNAS7 to 8.3.0-p1 and had a hard time making user authenticated AFP access work. The documentation is correct, but does not say a few important facts that I'd like to add here so that its maintainer may add it if he agrees.
Authenticating for AFP access consists of two "layers" - the user authentication and the share password. Entering your FreeNAS AFP volume in OS X finder with Cmd+K triggers a dialog to enter your credentials. Those are the user credentials and NOT the AFP share password that you configure when defining your share. I did not find a way withing OS X to enter that share password. In fact once you enter it in FreeNAs share configuration there's no way to clear it, only to change it do a different one. To clear a share password you have to remove the share an recreate it and leaving the password fields empty.
Cheers,
Peter